You can guess that this is a Pennycostal church!

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

Woman fatally bitten by snake in church

Neighbors say Kentucky congregation practices serpent-handling

LONDON, Ky. - A woman who was bitten by a snake at a church that neighbors say practices serpent-handling died of her wounds hours later, a newspaper reported.
Linda Long, 48, was bitten Sunday at East London Holiness Church, where neighbors said the reptiles are handled as part of religious services, The Lexington Herald-Leader reported Tuesday.
Long died at University of Kentucky Medical Center about four hours after being bitten, authorities told the newspaper.
"She said she was bitten by a snake at her church," said Lt. Ed Sizemore of the Laurel County Sheriff's Office.
Handling reptiles as part of religious services is illegal in Kentucky. Snake handling is a misdemeanor and punishable by a $50 to $100 fine.
Police said they had not received any reports of snake handling at the church.
Snake handling is based on a passage in the Bible that says a sign of a true believer is the power to "take up serpents" without being harmed.
Church officials could not be reached for comment.

[eliot mayfield]

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Yes, what wimps using rattlers. If they had real faith they'd turn some Black mamba's loose among the congregation.
Stupid pentacostals!!!!

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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Snakes are for sissies. I have no bear in my basement.

[Brother Temperance]

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Woman fatally bitten by snake in church

Neighbors say Kentucky congregation practices serpent-handling

LONDON, Ky. - A woman who was bitten by a snake at a church that neighbors say practices serpent-handling died of her wounds hours later, a newspaper reported.
Handling reptiles as part of religious services is illegal in Kentucky. Snake handling is a misdemeanor and punishable by a $50 to $100 fine.
Police said they had not received any reports of snake handling at the church.
Snake handling is based on a passage in the Bible that says a sign of a true believer is the power to "take up serpents" without being harmed.
Church officials could not be reached for comment.

That's what you get for not reading the Bible!
Deuteronomy 6:16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

[Deaner]

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...a passage in the Bible that says a sign of a true believer is the power to "take up serpents" without being harmed.

Isn't this the same passage the homers use to call themselves Christians?

[Bobby-Joe]

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Pennycostals; once they were just another snake cult, and now, snakes in all of our beautiful cites.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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That's what you get for not reading the Bible!
Deuteronomy 6:16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

Excellent point, Pastor. It goes to show what God thinks about cafeteria "Christians."

[Brother V]

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Pennycostals ON A PLANE!!!

[Student of Landover]

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Isn't this the same passage the homers use to call themselves Christians?

Pentocostals, homers, they're both the same thing.

[lilith]

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That poor snake! Did it survive?

[Rachael Van Helsing]

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Snakes are for sissies. I have a bear in my basement.

I wouldn't brag about that Zeke...considering the chains and the tutu

And yeah, what happened to the snake? And is that woman going to be getting a Darwin award? Because she deserves one!

[Student of Landover]

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And yeah, what happened to the snake? And is that woman going to be getting a Darwin award? Because she deserves one!

What is all this talk of a "Darwin Award". Every so often do you sickular scientists give awards to those who can come up with even more crazy theories to feed to today's children and turn them away from God? Is that what the award is for, in honour of the one you evolutionists worship, Darwin?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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Any so-called award with the name of that monkey-loving drug-addict Darwin would be considered a curse in the company that I keep.

I am proud to admit that I won a prize in Summer Bible Gun Camp back when I was 5 or 6 years old. I was able to recite the entire Book of Ezekiel (my namesake) by heart, while breaking down, cleaning, and re-assembling an M-16 assault rifle. What a proud day that was. My father gave me a Godly beating when I got home, for the sin of pride in fact. Lord how he loved me.

[Rachael Van Helsing]

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That still doesn't explain the need for a bear in your basement.

[lilith]

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That still doesn't explain the need for a bear in your basement.

Please tell me he's not working his way up the evolutionary chain....there was the rumour of a...liasion with the dreaded monkey,Bobo.